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Reyhan Aslan; Zekiye Özer Altinkaya – European Journal of Education, 2024
Despite various calls for a thorough re-conceptualization of current English language teaching (ELT) practices, incorporating courses for critical perspectives on linguistic and cultural diversity is still a major challenge in most teacher education programmes in many English as a foreign language (EFL) countries. Therefore, we explored the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Language Teachers, Knowledge Level, Second Language Instruction
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Canbay, Fukan; Peker, Benâ Gül – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2022
The study was carried out to investigate English as Lingua Franca (ELF) perceptions of English major students. It was done in qualitative research design with the participation of 100 students from two departments at a state university in the Eastern Anatolia Region of Turkey. Fifty students were chosen from each of the English language teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, English, Majors (Students)
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Sybille Heinzmann; Zeynep Köylü; Kristina Ehrsam – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2024
This paper presents insights from two interview studies with the aim of shedding light on the learning potential of studying abroad in an area where English is used as a lingua franca. The majority of previous research on study abroad focuses on students' experiences of studying abroad in target-language regions, for example learners of English…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Abukan, Memet; Chkonia, Liana – African Educational Research Journal, 2021
Strong neighbor relations between Georgia and Turkey have allowed for many interactions to be intensely experienced and maintained in language and culture just as in many areas. The effective communication that both countries established with each other during the historical process has reflected on their vocabulary and enabled thousands of common…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Language Usage, Languages, Turkish
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Tuncer, Hülya; Karatas, Tuçe Öztürk – Online Submission, 2020
Today's world has been embracing social, political, and economical changes that result in the replacement of people for immigration and citizenship purposes. Those waves of change cause some countries to receive the movement of new people, which requires the countries to take precautions. In doing so, in the citizenship context various mechanisms…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Immigrants, Citizenship, Official Languages
Öztürk, Samed Yasin – Online Submission, 2021
English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and World Englishes (WE) have appeared as a reaction to the deep-rooted mentality that American and British English are the only 'proper and acceptable' type of English in terms of teaching and learning. With the world's recent position as a 'global village', English language has become the lingua franca and this…
Descriptors: Language Role, Official Languages, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Karakas, Ali – Journal on English Language Teaching, 2019
Recently, there has been some redesigning in the English language teaching curriculum in Turkey as a consequence of overall educational reforms. However, there has, so far, been no research that has investigated the current high school English curriculum in light of the recent linguistic developments in the field of English language teaching.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, High School Students
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Aslan, Mehmet – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2018
Global discourses around English-medium instruction (EMI) have inspired controversy for many years now. A wide range of scholars has espoused multiple opinions exhorting the benefits and disadvantages of using English as a medium of instruction in higher education. Although EMI is certainly relevant to primary and secondary school education, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Bayyurt, Yasemin; Kurt, Yavuz; Öztekin, Elifcan; Guerra, Luis; Cavalheiro, Lili; Pereira, Ricardo – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2019
Today English has become the Lingua Franca or common language of many people, regardless of their being native or nonnative speaker of English all over the world. Therefore, it has become necessary to educate pre-/in-service teachers with an awareness towards the significance of the involvement of an "English as a lingua franca" (ELF)…
Descriptors: Official Languages, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
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Tosuncuoglu, Irfan; Kirmizi, Özkan – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2019
The rapid proliferation of English as a medium of communication has sparked large-scale debate on the role of English and the terminology such as ELF, WE, EIL, etc. The paradigms of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) and World Englishes (WEs) are sometimes considered to be confusing to differentiate between, and in addition these terms are often…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language of Instruction
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Yucedag, Zeynep; Karakas, Ali – Online Submission, 2019
This study aims to discover the perceptions of high school language division students towards English as a lingua franca in a Turkish province. For this purpose, a descriptive survey method was chosen via using a questionnaire consisting of 13 questions. The responses were rated on a 4-point Likert scale. The data were gathered from 85 students of…
Descriptors: High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Karakas, Ali – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2018
As universities attempt to change their medium of instruction from the local languages to English and become more international by recruiting international students and teaching staff, their academic English language policies and practices appear to be more prominent. The use of English in higher education as the medium of instruction and the…
Descriptors: Universities, Policy Analysis, Educational Policy, English (Second Language)
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Sahin, Idris – Educational Research and Reviews, 2018
In Turkey, education in state schools can be delivered in foreign languages such as German, French and English. However, mother tongue education cannot be provided in the languages of minorities or local groups other than those officially accepted as minorities (that is, according to the Treaty of Lausanne). In this regard, the primary aim of this…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Native Language Instruction, Graduate Students, State Schools
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Deniz, Esma Biricik; Özkan, Yonca; Bayyurt, Yasemin – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2016
The leading position of English as a global language has evidently been continuing for several decades. This pivotal role has inevitably been influencing the agenda of English language teaching and teacher education in most domains of the profession. Although English as a lingua franca (ELF) implications and practices on teaching and teacher…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Official Languages, Teaching Methods
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Kural, Faruk; Bayyurt, Yasemin – Educational Studies, 2016
This study presents the outcome of the implementation of a process-oriented model of an intercultural competence (IC) and English as a lingua franca (ELF)-awareness development syllabus to prepare government-sponsored Turkish international sojourners for global communication in English L1 countries. Based on social constructivist research…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Curriculum Implementation, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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